How much surplus military equipment did police get?

Members of the Outagamie County Sheriff’s Department Emergency Response Team clear hallways and rooms during a training exercise April 8 at the former Oneida Nursing Home in Oneida.(Photo: Wm.Glasheen/Post-Crescent Media)Buy Photo

More than $30 million worth of surplus military equipment such as assault rifles, grenade launchers and armored trucks has been transferred to local police agencies in Wisconsin since 2004. Departments nationwide have obtained billions of dollars in military-style equipment through the free Defense Department program created in the 1990s. Records from the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs shows whose taking advantage of the option. Highlighted agencies on the map below received guns, grenade launchers, armored trucks, night visions equipment or body armor.

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